Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1995-04-07
1997-09-30
Voeltz, Emanuel T.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364480, 364707, G06F 132, G04G 1500
Patent
active
056732023
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a process and a controlling device employed to minimise the energy consumption of an electrical load as described in the preamble of claims 1, 8 and 10. The per capita energy consumption of the population has increased dramatically since the beginning of industrialisation and continues to rise. The direct and indirect consequences of this development are difficult to predict. Simply the fact that today's society must rely on exhaustible energy resources such as oil or coal and is not capable of living in balance with nature requires appropriate steps towards reducing the consumption of energy.
A reduction in the consumption of energy can be attained in various ways: by sacrificing output, which also means sacrificing comfort; by improving the efficiency dining conversion or transport of energy; and by avoiding useless waste of energy.
Various devices and methods already exist which are designed to avoid poorly utilised energy in electrical energy consumers. In the following report, the term "electrical load" or simply "load" will be used synonymously with "electrical energy consumers." The aforesaid electrical energy consumers are various electrically supplied elements 8 or appliances 20, for example incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, beverage dispensers, copy machines, computers, electric motors, heating elements, cooking ranges etc.
The following examples illustrate how wasteful energy consumption can be avoided: flow of energy to the electrical load can be interrupted manually, for example by operating a switch, or automatically, for example by using a relay; throttles the flow of energy to the load to the necessary minimal degree.
It is well-known that copy machines or laser printers lose a relatively high amount of energy in stand-by mode. One possibility to reduce wasted energy in this case is, for example, the use of a timer which automatically switches off the machine when it is most probably not in use. However, even in this case there is still a considerable amount of inefficiently used energy. The Ravel-Handbook "Strom rationell nutzen; Umfassendes Grundwissen und praktischer Leitfaden zur rationellen Verwendung von Elektrizitat", published by BfK/vdf 1992, states on page 249 that the newest machines can automatically shift into a state with a low energy consumption level after an adjustable delay following a use. This enables energy to be conserved during periods of low usage. However, if the machine is used during this time, it will take longer for the machine to warm up, causing a longer wait.
In order to avoid wasteful use of energy, it must first be decided whether the energy consumed is utilised or not and whether the conservation of wasted energy leads to a tolerable or intolerable loss of comfort. Most conventional methods offer insufficient information about the actual need of energy or the existing information is not sufficiently applied in order to minimise the amount of energy consumed.
The object of this invention is to specify a process and to create a controlling device 1, which minimise the energy consumption of a load 8, 20 by reducing the mount of consumed but not utilised energy to a minimum, in such a way that the loss in comfort due to conservation is tolerable.
This object will be accomplished by the process and controlling device 1 as they are defined in the claims.
According to the invention the energy consumed but not utilised by an electrical load 8, 20 will be minimised by regulating the energy flow to load 8, 20. This is achieved by applying a learning process to individual factors in the relation between well and poorly utilised energy.
The basis of the invented procedure lies therein that the flow of energy to load 8, 20 is regulated automatically with the help of controlling device 1 by converting at least one primary measured value 2 and at least one primary nominal value 3 to a control value 6 which is used to control the flow of energy to load 8, 20. In addition, controlling device 1 possesses means with which a user can manually int
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Baldenweg Urs
Sauter Beat
Energy Management Team AG
Kemper M.
Voeltz Emanuel T.
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